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Why the ‘Suits’ Creator Was Convinced He Would Never Get the Show Made · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most talked about TV shows right now
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  Speaker 2: continues to be one that hasn't aired a new episode
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  Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen. It's Suits, the legal drama has found
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  Speaker 2: a new and massive audience since arriving on Netflix this summer,
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  Speaker 2: breaking many streaming records for pre existing content, But It's
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  Speaker 2: writer producer Aaron Korsch tells The Hollywood Reporter this is
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  Speaker 2: not the first time he's been shocked by his own creation,
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  Speaker 2: because Aaron didn't even intend to sell the show in
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  Speaker 2: the first place, and only wrote the pilot as a
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  Speaker 2: writing sample. On top of that, it wasn't even a
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  Speaker 2: legal drama, he says. I wanted to be a comedy
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  Speaker 2: writer at the time, so I sat down to write
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  Speaker 2: something in the tone of Entourage, But on Wall Street
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  Speaker 2: what emerged was more dramatic. They were bankers. Originally at
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  Speaker 2: the time, no one was going to buy a Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street show, but that didn't matter. I didn't think in
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  Speaker 2: a million years anybody would even buy it, but my
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  Speaker 2: manager loved it and he said he could sell it.
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  Speaker 2: We also benefited greatly moving from Wall Street to Lawyers
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  Speaker 2: because it raised the stags. Suits is on Netflix and Peacock.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's direct from Hollywood.